Hihihihihi,
I haven't written in awhile, and there is so much to say!! Unfortunately, as is generally the case, the fun and different generally takes a back seat to the ridiculousness that is my life. The 22nd anniversary of my birth was no exception.
So, after traveling 2 weekends in a row (one trip to Kokro Bite Beach--lots of fun, beautiful beach, HORRIBLE sunburn, great pancakes and pasta--and the other to Tafi Atome Monkey Sanctuary--crazy rainstorm, potential Tro Tro accident, walking 5km in mud and god-knows-what-else, FEEDING MONA MONKEYS BANANAS, great game of Kings Cup in our room) I was looking forward to staying home the weekend of my birthday, especially as I had 2 papers due the next week, and trying to print your stuff out can get pretty intense, so some of my friends and I decided to have a great burrito night b-day celebration. We invited our whole group of Californians, and some of our new Ghanaian friends. Unfortunately, for the party, the electricity went out about an hour before the cooking was supposed to commence, a huge thunder storm appeared out of nowhere, and, to top it all off, in our efforts to make green chile for the party, Elena and I burned our hands (on the peppers) so badly they were on fire for literally 6 hours. The power finally came back on around 8, and my friends had gotten me a BEAUTIFUL cake (with my name on it and everything!) and the burrito eating commenced! I was still trying to cope with my intense chile burns (we tried everything to make it stop: milk, tomatoes, hydrocortizone cream, ice, cocoa butter, gin, etc, etc and nothing worked) so I didn't really eat that much, but the party was fun in the end. So much for a perfect African fiesta.
Anyway, moving on. Since then I attended a CRAZY toga party for another birthday, the theme was that everyone had to wear African cloth, and there was NO STITCHING ALLOWED. It was really amazing what some people came up with. I cheated a little, and wore leggings under my bright green fabric tied into a tube top and skirt-thing, but no one seemed to care. What was really amazing was that no one wore the same fabric at all! A bunch of Ghanaians were there too, and it was just a fun college party, complete with a game of flip cup (I didn't participate, I was too busy dancing) and it was great to have a laid back night with everyone.
I have also been playing Rugby in the past 6 weeks. We are in the process of creating a women's rugby team at the University of Ghana, however, only Oboruni girls have shown up to play. We had our first game last weekend, against a team of secondary school girls, and we were KILLED! These girls (who all looked like they were about 9) were SO fast,we just couldn't keep up with them, and, they played SO dirty! I was punched in the face twice, a girl tackled me and then elbowed me in the face, and another girl picked me up and dropped me on the ground!! It was insane. A bunch of our friends showed up to laugh at us and cheer us on, and it really was a lot of fun. We are supposed to have one more game before the end of the semester, so hopefully we'll be ready!
In addition to all this, I am SO behind in school! I have only just begun my field work for my research project, which is due in a month, and all of a sudden I have tons of papers and projects to do for my classes, which is ridiculous because we seriously haven't been doing anything in any of my classes for the entire semester! Oh well...its my fault to delaying so long on my project, a fact that my adviser is pretty ready to point out at any available opportunity. Eeesh.
Tonight all the international students are having this huge Halloween party, it should be a lot of fun. I am dressing up as one of the boys in my program, he is super tall, has long hair, a mustache, and wears bright colored pants, so my costume will not be remotely sexy, of which I am grateful, as the party is shaping up to be about 80% male. Okay, I am off to do research, I promise I will not delay so long on the blogging again.
I love you.
